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yeah, i kind of expected a good playoff team...but the injury to brand and to a lesser degree livy, killed all that...and yes i think he would've made a HUGE difference...you don't???
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Livingston has been injured for like a year now, you cant say this off season, before brands injury you were expecting him to be a difference maker. No, I dont think brand would have made a "HUGE" difference. First of all, he would have taken away from kaman's output, so its not like were talking a linear addition of 20 and 10 to our front court totals. And with one extra guy, who did you see us overtaking? You do realize that were not even at the all star break and were already 14 wins behind the LAST playoff position? And we would have overtaken who exactly? Golden state? Alredy doing great, and now added webber? Denver who has suffered a lot of injuries, and is getting healthy? San Antonio?
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and it seems you are already assuming that corey will opt out...i am assuming he doesn't and even if he does, thornton is proving to be a good player...(reminds me of a more athletic josh howard, just needs to work on his D)...
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Well, yes. For two years now its been common knowledge in the media and generally that Maggette is opting out for the dual reason of his percieved missuse by dunlevvy, and he thinks that he can get better money elsewhere. (personally i doubt it, but who knows).
Its still way too early to call thornton more than adequate, especially when were talking about replacing maggette's 18-20 points. He has shown nothing yet that tells us he can consistently put up those kind of numbers. Im hoping he shows something by the end of the year to make the maggette loss less felt, but i really dont think anyone here on this board thinks he will immediately become a consistent 20 point scorer by next year.